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To: SunkenCiv

Weren’t the Phoneicians the Culture that tossed children into Bronze Idols of Molech?

Supposedly for good luck at sea?


4 posted on 08/15/2010 11:47:39 AM PDT by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: padre35
Weren’t the Phoenicians the culture that tossed children... Supposedly for good luck at sea?

Probably most ancient societies practiced infanticide, trying to make their own luck by weeding out the inferior, before (all the rest of) nature did it for them. We are today mainly the descendants of Judeo-Christians who had better ideas by the grace of God.

6 posted on 08/15/2010 11:58:30 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: padre35

They actually enjoyed eating ‘em. Bon appetit.


7 posted on 08/15/2010 1:26:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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9 posted on 08/16/2010 12:43:33 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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